Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) Leaders of the ruling MahaYuti government in Maharashtra on Friday criticised the Congress leader and former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan following his statement regarding the NCP-SP leaders, while claiming that the Sharad Pawar-led party “may merge with the NDA”.Earlier, NCP-SP MP Supriya Sule had ruled out alignment with NDA and refuted claims made by Chavan that some of the party’s lawmakers were “disgruntled”.Speaking to IANS, Union Minister and Republican Party Of…
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Mumbai, July 8 (IANS) Replying to a high-decibel debate under Rule 293 in the State Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis delivered a comprehensive, data-backed defence of the Mahayuti government’s governance. Addressing urban flooding, massive infrastructure projects like the ‘Missing Link’ and the redevelopment of Dharavi, CM Fadnavis heavily criticised the Opposition for what he termed “baseless criticism”, concluding his address with sharp Urdu poetry.CM Fadnavis said that w…
Mumbai, July 8 (IANS) The ongoing Monsoon session of the Maharashtra Assembly witnessed fiery exchanges on Wednesday as the Opposition aggressively targeted the ruling MahaYuti government over recent monsoon-related crises. After four days of relentless downpours across Mumbai and Pune — which resulted in fatal tree-fall incidents in the state capital Mumbai and a landslide on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway’s ‘Missing Link’ project — the Opposition launched a scathing attack on the state administr…
Mumbai, July 8 (IANS) Replying to a debate under Rule 293 on the development of Mumbai and its satellite cities, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. Adopting a defiant stance against ongoing social media trolling and allegations of corruption following a recent landslide on the Mumbai-Pune ‘Missing Link’ expressway, CM Fadnavis declared himself “abuse-proof” while defending the project as a global engineering m…
Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) In a significant move aimed at strengthening the cooperative credit structure and curbing local political rivalries, the MahaYuti government on Tuesday introduced a bill in the state assembly to amend the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960. The bill makes it mandatory for cooperative societies to grant membership and extend crop loans to any farmer who owns at least 10 gunthas of land. The bill was tabled by Cooperation Minister Babasaheb Patil.Local political fact…
Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader, Sandeep Deshpande, on Tuesday took a sharp, sarcastic jibe at the Mahayuti government in Maharashtra and mocked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) frequent tendency to blame India’s historical issues on the country’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. “Pandit Nehru is responsible for the landslide on the Mumbai Pune Missing Link, and those who still want to criticise the government should move to Pakistan,” Des…
Mumbai, July 6 (IANS) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday hit back at the opposition, which targeted him and the Mahayuti government directly, alleging large-scale corruption in the Mumbai-Pune Missing Link project after traffic came to a halt following a landslide there. “Answers should only be given to people who actually understand something. Those whose sole purpose is to criticise, who have done nothing in their own lifetimes, not even built a simple bridge, and whose party ruined th…
Mumbai, July 6 (IANS) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and MP, Sanjay Raut, on Monday launched a blistering attack on the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government, questioning the state of Mumbai’s infrastructure during the monsoon.“The Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister should wear raincoats and tour the city to see the true state of India’s financial capital. They beat the drums of development, but if the people of this state want to see the extreme level of brokerage and commiss…
Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) In a major push to tackle plastic pollution and position Maharashtra as a green manufacturing hub, the MahaYuti government has approved the Maharashtra Bioplastics Policy 2026, aimed at promoting bioplastics manufacturing through a comprehensive package of incentives and dedicated funding.The policy, which will remain in force from 2026 to 2031, seeks to transform Maharashtra into a national hub for bioplastics manufacturing, research, innovation and exports. The government…
Mumbai, June 25 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Thursday claimed that the Mahayuti government’s move to present supplementary demands of Rs 97,706.40 crore, barely three months after the annual budget 2026-27, exposes the deterioration in Maharashtra’s financial discipline. The party said that with public debt soaring to nearly Rs 11 lakh crore, an annual interest burden of Rs 60,000 crore and arbitrary spending from the state treasury, the economy of the Maharashtra g…